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Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition by Thomas Hobbes
RRP: $35.08$31.86Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of great political turmoil (Hobbes' life spanned the reign of Charles I, the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the... -
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State Jeff Halper 9780745343396
RRP: $29.23$19.60'Extremely convincing' - Electronic Intifada For decades we have spoken of the 'Israel-Palestine conflict', but what if our understanding of the issue has been wrong all along? This book explores how the concept of settler colonialism provides a... -
The Perfect Summer Juliet Nicolson 9780719562433
RRP: $29.23$19.60'As page-turning as a novel' Joanna TrollopeOne summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinskys gravity-defying... -
The German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections 1938-2001 by Gitta Sereny
RRP: $29.23$21.35Gitta Sereny is one of the world's most respected journalists and historians. This book gathers together the best of her writing on Germany from over sixty years. It amounts to an extraordinary portrait of the country and its people, how they have come... -
The Western Front by Richard Holmes 9781846075827
RRP: $31.18$22.64For most British people, the First World War was the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the Swiss Frontier to the North Sea. It was there that the majority of nearly nine million British and Dominion soldiers who enlisted during the war... -
The Folk-lore of Herefordshire by Ella Mary Leather
RRP: $29.25$25.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839294Author Ella Mary LeatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
Flower Class Corvettes: Shipcraft Special by John Lambert
RRP: $37.03$27.32The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between... -
The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's Water by Nick Higham
RRP: $42.90$38.40Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn a tap and it gushes out. But it wasn't always so. For centuries London, one of the largest... -
Operation Market-Garden 1944 3: The British XXX Corps Missions by Ken Ford
RRP: $33.13$23.95Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitions Operation Market-Garden. Part of this plan called for a rapid advance from Belgium through Holland up to... -
The Devil's Bridge: The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944 by Anthony Tucker-Jones
RRP: $39.00$30.65In the late summer of 1944, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm 'Willi' Bittrich found himself in the Netherlands surveying his II SS Panzer Corps, which was in a poor state having narrowly escaped the defeat in Normandy. He was completely unaware that his... -
Lion Rampant: The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland by Robert Woollcombe
RRP: $15.58$12.38Lion Rampant is Robert Woollcombe's graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during the desperate battle for Normandy and the Allied advance into Germany. Vividly evoking the confusion,... -
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - A New York Times Bestseller by Judy Batalion
RRP: $21.43$13.01One of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who inspired Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis... -
The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Sam Kean 9781529374889
RRP: $25.33$16.97Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely in history have scientific secrets been as vital as they were during World War II. In the midst of planning the Manhattan Project, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services created a secret offshoot - the Alsos... -
Tarot: Cards For Divination, Wisdom And Self Discovery by Nikkie Jay
RRP: $58.48$40.79Gaining insight into our deeper selves through the use of divination tools to help decide future actions has preoccupied mankind since ancient times. In Europe, cards which became known as Tarot have been used to map the soul and predict the future since... -
The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages by Katherine Harvey 9781789144895
RRP: $39.00$28.65An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people. The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much-or too little-sex, while the Roman Catholic Church... -
Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape by Jeremy Harte
RRP: $39.00$27.87According to legend, the English landscape - so calm on the surface - is really the Devil's work. Cloven Country tells of rocks hurled into place and valleys carved out by infernal labour. The Devil's hideous strength laid down great roads in one night,... -
How to Survive in Medieval England by Toni Mount
RRP: $29.23$21.35Imagine you were transported back in time to Medieval England and had to start a new life there. Without mobile phones, ipads, internet and social media networks, when transport means walking or, if you're fortunate, horse-back, how will you know where... -
Convicts in the Colonies: Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia by Lucy Williams 9781526756312
RRP: $25.33$21.35In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported beyond the seas'. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in... -
The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
RRP: $31.18$22.64This book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign during the Vietnam War between 1965 to 1975, where the US Seventh Fleet, stationed off the Vietnamese coast, was given the tongue-in-cheek nickname 'The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club'. On August 2,... -
Sea of Storms: Shipwrecks of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly by Richard Larn 9780995502864
RRP: $48.75$33.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995502864Author Richard LarnFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Mabecron Books LtdPublisher Mabecron Books Ltd -
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague by Timothy Garton Ash
RRP: $21.43$14.70The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Timothy Garton Ash was there in Warsaw,... -
Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville by Gemma Hollman
RRP: $25.33$19.25'An important and timely book.' - Philippa Gregory Joan of Navarre was the richest woman in the land, at a time when war-torn England was penniless. Eleanor Cobham was the wife of a weak king's uncle - and her husband was about to fall from grace. ... -
Infamy: The Crimes of Ancient Rome by Jerry Toner
RRP: $19.48$14.06Rome is an empire with a bad reputation. From its brutal games to its depraved emperors, its violent mobs to its ruthless wars, its name resounds down the centuries like a scream in an alley. But was it as bad as all that? Join the historian Jerry Toner... -
The Corner Shop: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick Babita Sharma 9781473673236
RRP: $19.48$13.46A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Nuanced, human and engaging' Nikesh Shukla, Observer'Full of life, characters, gossip and all the richness of the local community' Sir David Jason'A delightful story of growing up "above the shop"' Nigel Slater,... -
The Outpost: Now a Major Motion Picture by Jake Tapper
RRP: $19.48$11.04NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of the deadliest battles of the Afghanistan war, acclaimed by critics as a classic. 'A... -
Writings for a Liberation Psychology by Ignacio Martin-Baro
RRP: $60.35$48.38"In your country," Ignacio Martin-Baro remarked to a North American colleague, "it's publish or perish. In ours, it's publish and perish." In November 1989 a Salvadoran death squad extinguished his eloquent voice, raised so often and so passionately... -
Barents Sea 1942: The Battle for Russia's Arctic Lifeline Angus Konstam 9781472848451
RRP: $31.18$22.64A gripping examination of the Battle of the Barents Sea, fought in the near darkness and icy cold of the northern winter, in which the Kriegsmarine sought to sever the crucial Allied Arctic Convoy route once and for all. The Arctic convoys that passed... -
Vietnam: Rising Dragon by Bill Hayton
RRP: $25.33$22.35An "enlightening and persuasive" (Jonathan Mirsky, New York Review of Books) survey of Vietnam as an emerging Asian power The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking... -
The Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Sun Tzu 9780804854351
RRP: $25.33$17.22The Art of War by Sun Tzu is the best known book on military strategy ever written. Although its wisdom is ancient, its principles and advice are timeless; it remains as influential as ever in military strategy, leadership roles, business tactics, legal... -
Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present by Norman Davies
RRP: $38.98$27.85The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945,... -
I Never Knew That About England's Country Churches Christopher Winn 9781785036576
RRP: $29.23$21.35This charming book takes you through the counties of England, exploring Saxon churches, reflective of simple faith; Norman churches with rugged arches and powerful pillars, stamping their authority, gothic churches with their soaring arches; Decorated... -
The First Anglo-Sikh War by Amarpal Singh
RRP: $29.23$19.11During the eighteenth and early years of the nineteenth century, the red tide of British expansion had covered almost the entire Indian subcontinent, stretching to the borders of the Punjab. There the great Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh had developed his... -
The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others by Paul Cartledge
RRP: $37.03$26.54This book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: 'Who were the Classical Greeks?' Paul Cartledge - 'one of the most theoretically alert, widely read and prolific of contemporary ancient historians' (TLS) - here examines the Greeks... -
Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre by Jacqueline Riding
RRP: $17.53$12.77The story of the Peterloo massacre, a defining moment in the history of British democracy, told with passion and authority. 'Excellent' Zadie Smith 'Fast-paced and full of fascinating detail' Tim Clayton 'A superb account of one of the defining... -
Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End Charles Jennings 9780349112305
RRP: $21.43$14.84There is probably not a London suburb with more intense historical connections, more diversity and more astonishing buildings and artefacts than Greenwich. There are sections on MARITIME GREENWICH - home of the Maritime museum and the CUTTY SARK; ROYAL... -
Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac
RRP: $29.23$21.35Disrupt and Deny is the untold story behind Britain's secret scheming against both enemies and friends from 1945 to the present day. British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since... -
Compact Wales: Rhinogydd - Ancient Routes and Old Roads by Jean Napier
RRP: $11.60$10.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845242718Author Jean NapierFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch Cyf -
Sunderland Match of My Life: Twelve Stars Relive Their Greatest Games by Rob Mason
RRP: $19.48$14.92A dozen Sunderland legends come together to tell the stories behind their favourite ever games for the club - enabling Black Cats fans of all ages to relive these magic moments through the eyes and emotions of the men who were there, playing their hearts... -
Dornier Do 217 Units of World War 2 by Chris Goss
RRP: $31.18$22.64The Do 217 had a much larger bomb load capacity and had considerably greater range than the Do 17, which it replaced in frontline service from mid to late 1941. Although initially used simply as a bomber, later variants were developed to allow the Do 217... -
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
RRP: $21.43$15.93In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and...